Display-fixture.



No. 678,690. Patented Jluly i6, I901.

H. G. RUTH.

DISPLAY FIXTURE.

(Application filed Jan. 24, 1901.)

(No Modal.)

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HENRY G. ROTH, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

Dl SPLAY-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,690, dated July 16, 1901.

Application filed January 24,1901. Serial No. 44,554. (No model.)

T0 all whom it 'may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ROTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-"Fixtures; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficientdisplay-fixture for retail stores and other places which may be readily put up and knocked down and packed in small space for storage and shipment.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing a section of fixture constructed in accordance with my present invention applied in working position. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the fixture shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View showing the sections of the fixture separated and laid out flat in their relative positions. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section approximately on the line 00 121 of Fig. 2, some parts being broken away. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line 00 x of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on the line as m of Fig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a detail viewin plan showing one of the so-called binders.

In this preferred construction the body of the fixture is made up of a plurality of flexible sheets of material, preferably of thin spring sheet metal; In the drawings the said body also comprises a lower end sheet-section 2., which may be either of spring or any other The sections 1 and 2 are connected at their adjoining edges by hinges 3, preferably afforded by canvas strips suitably secured to the said sections.

For cooperation with the sections 1 and 2, I provide channel-like marginal strips 4: and 5, the former of which are curved and the latter of which is shown as straight. The

manner in which the several strips l may be curved to produce the design illustrated in Fig. 1 is best illustrated in Fig. 3. These marginal strips may be given any desired curve; but they must have sufficient stiffness to maintain their curved form and give the proper curves to the plate-sections 1 when they are applied to the side edges thereof, as indicated in Fig. 2.

It will often be desirable to secure pictures or printed cards or sheets to the outer faces of the sections 1, and when this is to be done such cards or sheets are applied, as indicated at 6 in Fig. 4c, the marginal channel-pieces 4 being slipped over the edges of the same as well as over the edges of the said plates 1. To more firmly tie together the channel-strips 4 and hold them in working positions on the plate-sections 1, binding-strips 7 are employed. These binding-strips 7 have hooked ends 8, which are adapted to engage over the ends of the channelstrips 4., as shown in Figs. 2 and 4:.

The sections 1 if made of cardboard or even when made of cheap metal may of course have the pictures or advertising matter printed, painted, or otherwise produced directly on the exposed surfaces thereof.

It is evident that a fixture of the above character will be of small cost, of very light weight, and may be Very easily put together and knocked down. Furthermore, it will pack in very small space.

The fixture above illustrated may be bent into a great many different forms to form different designs of fixture. When formed as indicated in Fig. 1, it may be detachably secured to the wall, as indicated byseveral nails .2 or other suitable devices.

It will be understood that the invention above described is capable of considerable modification within the scope of myinvention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows 1. A knockdown fixture comprising a plu rality of flexible plates, and permanently curved marginal strips,engageable with edges of said plates to hold the same curved, sub stantially as described.

2. A knockdown fixture comprising a p1urality of flexible plates, and still marginal channel-strips of curved form, engageable with the edges of said plates to hold the same curved, and which curved plates are adapted to form various configurations substantially as described. 4

3. A knockdown display-fixture comprising a plurality of spring-plates connected by hinged joints, and stiff marginal channelstrips, certain of which are curved and are engageable with the edges of certain of said plates to hold the same curved substantially as described.

4. In a display-fiXture, the combination with a plate and a show-card of approximately the same Width, of channel-strips of spring material adapted to be sprung over the edges of said plates and board, to detachably hold the same together and to stiffen and determine the form of said parts, substantially as described.

5. A display-fixture comprising a flexible plate, a pair of marginal channel-strips engageable with the edges of said plate, and a binder having hooked ends detachably engageable over said channel-strips, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY G. ROTH.

Witnesses:

, MABEL M. MoGRoRY,

FRANK D. lVIERCHANT. 

